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Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Middle Age and Health Care Costs in Later Life

J Am Coll Cardiol 2015;66:1876–85.

In the abstract, in the first sentence of the Results section, the costs reported were incorrect. The sentence with the correct costs is as follows.

Over 126,388 person-years of follow-up, average annual health care costs were significantly lower for participants aged 65 years or older with high midlife fitness than with low midlife fitness in both men ($7,569 vs. $12,811; p < 0.001) and women ($6,065 vs. $10,029; p < 0.001).

The third sentence of the Results section should read “Participants had low levels of cardiovascular risk factors at study entry, and women had lower average METs than men, with a narrower range (mean 8.7 METs in women, SD = 1.9, versus mean 11.0 METs in men, SD = 2.3).”

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